Resilient Lands
Resilient landscapes are large, connected landscapes that provide healthy, diverse habitats and migratory corridors for wildlife; clean air, clean water, recreation, and health benefits for people; and adaptation to climate change for wildlife and people.
Why Resilient Landscapes Matter
The natural resources of Massachusetts face daunting challenges from development, climate change, and other factors. Mass Audubon is committed to restoring and stewarding the state’s most important natural lands including forests, coastal watersheds, and river corridors where our work can deliver maximum ecological benefit.
Our land protection strategy complements existing Federal, state, and partner organization plans and we are amplifying the impact of our collective land protection actions by advocating for increased funding focused on land conservation and resilient landscapes.
As we conserve more natural lands, we are also working with private owners of forestlands and farms to implement land management methods that produce positive economic and ecological outcomes.
What We're Doing
Through a combination of land protection and land stewardship, Mass Audubon is creating resilient lands across the state.
Protect
Mass Audubon protects more than 40,000 acres across the state.
Restore
Mass Audubon uses restoration techniques to support healthy wildlife habitats and biological diversity.
Steward
We work to not only ecologically manage our lands but restore degraded ecosystems as well.
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Investing in our Future
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Mass Audubon and Brewster Conservation Trust Partner with Town of Brewster to Conserve and Activate Former Cape Cod Sea Camps Properties
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© Darya ZelentsovaCoastal Resilience
Mass Audubon’s approach to Coastal Resilience uses climate adaptation and nature-based climate solutions to focus on the protection, management, and restoration of four coastal priority habitats.
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Hawes HillMathWorks Makes a Transformational Gift
MathWorks, the leading developer of mathematical computing software, has given Mass Audubon a $25 million gift to help protect and restore the Commonwealth’s most valuable natural lands.
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Road's End Wildlife Sanctuary, WorthingtonResilient Forests
Forests are the defining feature of New England’s landscape and their benefits to people and wildlife are unmistakable.
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Boston Nature Center Net Zero GroundbreakingPolicy Priorities
Learn about all the bills we're backing this year, then join us in advocating for a transformative policy agenda!
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Solar Panels at Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, LenoxNew Report Shows We Can Build Solar Energy While Conserving Nature
Researchers found that Massachusetts has enough space to build three to four times as much solar energy as our climate targets project we’ll need by 2050.
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Flat Rock, FitchburgSeeing the Forest Through the Trees
Mass Audubon uses carefully designed, evidence-based management practices to care for 25,000 acres of forests across the state.
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© Julie ArchibaldMass Audubon's Losing Ground Report
An extensive analysis of the pace and patterns of land development and land protection in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2017.
Our Impact
Working with partners, we've dramatically expanded our efforts to restore and steward the state’s most important natural lands.
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41,000
Acres of land Mass Audubon currently protects
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1,000
Acres of wetlands that are currently in process of being restored
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66,888
Acres of private and municipal land we have created bird-friendly and climate-smart management plans on
Take Action
We need your curiosity, commitment, and passion to ensure that our lands become more resilient, that more people than ever experience the magic of nature, and that we fight climate change—now and in the future.
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